Elizabeth
@raisethegame.bsky.social
I like drawing and painting - mainly small animals and birds, Scots language, traditional music. Lifelong supporter of Independence for Scotland.
Thing is, Andy, you can’t keep saying that English mayors know best what’s best for their patch while preventing elected governments from suggesting the same, writes Ruth Wishart ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politi...
#Scotstober 2026 day 31 Neep - turnip Am auld farant aboot Halloween! A neep, no a pumpkin - sittin on the brace abune the ingle, glowerin, wi its ain reek, the anly licht. Dookin fir aipples in a basin. Ghaisty tales an bein feart tae gae ben the hoose in the daurk!
#Scotstober 2026 day 29 gype - idiot, fool Hauflins gae throu a stage whaur thae ken aabody, ither than thirsels (an thair pals) are gypes. Whiles thair mithers an faithers wunner hoo it is that the gawky glaikit gype sharin the hoose cuid possibly belang tae thaim.
#Scotstober #Haiku #Fleg Crivvens fit a fleg! Ah thocht ye wis a ghostie Aa peelie-wallie. My, what a fright I thought you were a ghost All pale faced
LeftPeggers 🏴 🇵🇸@leftpeggers.bsky.social · last mo.#Scotstober2026 Missing @drmdempster.bsky.social Each day in October has a Scots word for you to make a poem, a story, a picture, a joke, anything! On Halloween we use 1 of the Scots words for turnip/swede (the traditional item to make a spooky lantern with). Use the hashtag & please share!
#Scotstober Day 28 HAUNDLESS - Nae yiss. Daeless. Waur than bein a man doon. Gin somebodie is HAUNDLESS syne they cannae gie ye ony help at aw in ony seetiation. “Cannae find her ain erse wi baith haunds, yon yin. She's HAUNDLESS!” Repeat efter me: HAUNDLESS.
#Scotstober 2026 day 28 Fleg - fright, frighten. The awfy loud bang comin fae the one o’clock gun at Edinburgh Castle ay gies ye fleg even tho ye ken its gonnae happen!
#Scotstober 2026 day 28 Haundless - inept. A cuid nivir catch a ba’ an if bi some fluke it cam intae ma airms a drappit it! Haundless that wis me!
#Scotstober Day 24 ARABOTIOUS - Bealin. Angry. Gantin for a fecht. “A speirt Tam for yon tenner he awes me an he stertit gettin aw arabotious.” No a weel kent wird this yin, sae A'll gie ye the pronoonciation: Arra-BAW-shuss. Repeat efter me: ARABOTIOUS.
#Scotstober Day 27 MIDDEN - A heap o keech. Mair generally, a cowp. Whaur ye pit yer rubbage. The heich-pint o Scots-leid cultur cam at the MTV Music Awards in Embra in 2003, whan some chiel got Christina Aguilera tae cry hersel a “radge wee midden”. Better than Burns, yon. Repeat efter me: MIDDEN.
The woman who was having a go at Stephen Flynn on STV news blaming him for her shop being destroyed by Storm Boelo and not acting quickly enough, well lo and behold she is a Tory candidate and activist, the stv news journalist must have known this but failed to mention it, 👇
#Scotstober 2026. day 27 Midden -dung heap, dirty/messy. “This place is like Annie Kerr’s midden!” Oor mither’s wirds, whan she cam ben the room an seen stuff lying aboot oan the flair. We ay wunnert whae Annie Kerr wis - but nivir did fin oot!
#Scotstober 2026 day 27 Cuddy- horse Haw gee up ma cuddy Ma cuddys ower the dyke Iffin ye hit ma cuddy Ma cuddy wull gie ye a bite.
#Scotstober Day 26 Beelin (bealin) Nooadays tae be beelin is about bein in a flamin rage. Ae time a ‘bealin’ wis a muckle festerin, stoonin* pluke** fou o pus. *throbbing, **spot or boil 1/2
Scotland is being short-changed by the BBC, with cuts threatening Scottish jobs, talent and homegrown productions, Ruth Wishart writes ✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/commen...
#Scotstober 2026 Day 25 Wather - weather ‘Its eethir rainin, jist feenisht rainin or aboot tae rain’ wis the auld joke here whan we spak aboot the wather. If it wis sunny, we wid say ‘a rare day’. Whan it wis dull, ma uncle, a gairdner cried it a ‘plain day’.
#Scotstober 2026 Day 25 Jimp -jump Oor daft dug rins lik a bawd* an jimps lik a spring lamb. She’s oot in the wund daein baith roon the green the noo. Its fitting she’s pairt springer spaniel! *hare
Gale The whirlygig Haes done a jig 'Where's it found? Sea or land?' 'In Newfoundland' 'But how'd ye know it's yir contraption?' 's got granny's big bri-nylon pants on' #PegsPoyums #Scotstober
Leona@editor.scot · 3w agoAbair gaoth a-muigh
#scotstober Day 21 birl - to spin around mah heid is birlin whit tae dae wi yer wirds an mah birslin anger
#scotstober Day 25 jimp - to jump thi clock jimps back an ah wake wi a gift an oor untrauchled bi mah wirries
#Scotstober 2026 Day 24 Hurdies. (Thighs, haunches) A particlar President, weel kent for his thochts aboot wimmen, haes taein tae droolin ower the braw lads - sojers an the lik - he sees roond aboot im - thair hurdies, shanks, hunkers, shooders e’en bahookies!
#Scotstober #Haiku #Hurdies Queets an hurdies Dock, kytie, oxters, heid, neive, Lugs, een, moo and neb. Ankles and thighs, Bottom, belly, armpits, head, fist, Ears, eyes, mouth and nose. Nae sae muckle a haiku as a list o Doric words for parts o yir body.
LeftPeggers 🏴 🇵🇸@leftpeggers.bsky.social · last mo.#Scotstober2026 Missing @drmdempster.bsky.social Each day in October has a Scots word for you to make a poem, a story, a picture, a joke, anything! On Halloween we use 1 of the Scots words for turnip/swede (the traditional item to make a spooky lantern with). Use the hashtag & please share!
#Scotstober 2026 day 23 Smout. Oor pal Brucie wis a wee smout. He wis hauf the heicht an gurth o ither bairns in oor gang….but he wis a bonnie fechter!
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The £1 trillion cost of the Union to Scotland
Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has admitted that if the UK had in set up a sovereign wealth fund on the basis of income generated from North Sea oil and gas as Norway did in the 1980s, it …
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#Scotstober 2026 day 23 scunnered A haed tae tak the dug oot Tho the wather’s sic a scunner. Plashin doon, muckle dubs, Weet claes an shin, nae wunner! The dug’s no fasht aboot it She’s jist gled tae get ootside. Its me that’s scunnered An its really nae wunner, Am shut oot wi ma key inside!